The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Its about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.

We need men of the cross with the message of the cross bearing the marks of the cross.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him.

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.